BUENOS AIRES, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Argentine President

Javier Milei will likely discuss the recently announced tariff

hikes on U.S. imports of steel and aluminum in an upcoming visit

to Washington, the governor of a top aluminum-producing province

said on Wednesday.

Governor Ignacio Torres of the Chubut province, home to

aluminum maker Aluar, said Argentine officials had

already discussed the issue with the Latin American nation's

trade secretary and the U.S. embassy in the country.

Milei will be in the U.S. from Thursday to Saturday, where

he's set to meet with Elon Musk and the head of the

International Monetary Fund and will coincide with President

Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference,

presidential spokesman Manuel Adorni said on Wednesday.

The cabinet office did not immediately respond to an emailed

request for comment out of office hours on whether Milei would

discuss the tariffs on his visit.

Aluar is South America's largest aluminum exporter. The

U.S., however, imports less than 4% of its aluminum from

Argentina.

Torres said Trump's tariff announcement, raising the U.S.

tariff rate on aluminum to 25% from 10% previously without

exceptions, "doesn't make sense."

Trump hopes the move will aid struggling U.S. industry but

risks sparking a multi-front trade war and alienating allies in

the process.

"We have to defend Argentine labor, Argentine industry and

above all, a company (Aluar) that has just announced an

investment of more than $600 million in a wind farm in the

province," Torres said.

Torres and cabinet chief Guillermo Francos discussed an

upcoming bill that could unlock more than $10 billion in

investments in Chubut, the two said.

Congress is set to discuss the "Green Hydrogen Law," which

could draw Polish firm Green Capital to invest in sweeping wind

farms in the province, Torres and Francos said.

Green Capital did not immediately respond to a request for

comment.